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• Cops in Ferguson, Mo., started wearing video cameras this week. What effect do they have on behavior? A criminologist reviews the (preliminary) evidence.
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• Ben Hewitt’s sons do not follow standardized curriculum; there are no tests or grades. He is a member of the “unschooling” movement.
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• Over the next six months, about 20,000 people will get Ebola. Half will die. To stop the virus, the World Health Organization says it needs thousands of health care workers and $600 million.
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• The District of Columbia Court of Appeals’ decision overrides a July ruling by a three-judge panel that imperiled subsidies for people buying insurance in states that rely on the federal exchange.
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• The department will launch an inquiry into the city’s police force, NPR’s Carrie Johnson reports, with a focus on looking for a pattern or practice of discriminatory policing.
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• U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman ruled that sexual orientation has not been found to be a protected class and that the state has a legitimate interest in keeping marriage between a man and a woman.
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• A brief video captures the chaos of Ebola in Liberia. A suspected patient, who allegedly fled a treatment center, is pursued by health workers and wrestled into a truck.
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• Owner Jeffrey Bezos gave the job to Frederick J. Ryan Jr., a founding member of the website Politico. The Post had been run by the Graham family for eight decades.
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• It cost $2.4 billion to build the Revel Casino Hotel. Its closure is part of a trend that will reportedly shutter a third of Atlantic City’s big gambling halls by the end of September.
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• By early morning, 17 were still on the loose. The teens escaped after they found a weak spot in the center’s perimeter fence.
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